Senior Database Administrator

**Are you an experienced Database Administrator looking for a new and exciting challenge?**

We are looking for a strong Senior Database Administrator to provide Production and Development Support Services to a major Oracle E-Business Suite. The team comprises of 11 DBA’s who are all ensuring that issues and changes resulting from live incidents,maintenance or approved change requests are identified, resolved and tested prior to implementation.

The estate primarily comprises the Oracle eBusiness Suite (Payroll, HR, Finance and CRM). A Strategic Management Information (SMI) solution using OBIEE with an Exadata hosted data warehouse. A Hub interface between the main database and satellite systems,some of which are also in-house while others have third party COTS packages as their front end.

This is an exciting time for the team, with plans well underway to transform from current systems to the Cloud. This would give you the opportunity to deploy your skills to support the transition and grow with the team. You will also be supported with trainingon different areas to help you broaden your knowledge.

The role is hybrid with 2 days a week in our Gosport Office.

**What you will be doing**:

- Maintain the Oracle EBusiness system running in a closed secure network.
- Maintain the Strategic Management Information (SMI) system, running on a mixture of AIX and Linux, and assist in the upgrade to Oracle Analytics Server (OAS 5.9)
- Maintain and support the SMI Data Warehouse solution hosted on Exadata appliances.
- Install Oracle software patches to the relevant environments according to the patch’s instructions, as advised by the Patching Manager.
- Supervise and tune the database environment, ensuring system integrity and performance.
- Respond to and resolve database problems to ensure system availability. Ensure that the operations team are able to make direct contact when on call.
- Ensure the Disaster Recovery system is always receiving shipped logs, and they are being applied in a timely fashion to meet the SLAs.
- Action allocated incident investigation and ensure that resolutions and actions are performed in the required timescales as prioritised and agreed by the DBA Team.
- Be available for scheduled out of hours maintenance tasks and on-call rotas as agreed with the DBA Team Leader.

**What you’ll bring**:

- Oracle E-Business maintenance skills
- Performance Tune On experience.
- Oracle technology installs and upgrades to databases and WebLogic on Unix and Windows
- Multi-node database installations
- RMAN Backup and Recovery experience
- Disaster Recovery with Standby and Fail-Over
- Ability to attend site out-of-hours, and at weekends if required, for on-call response.

**It would be great if you had**:

- Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Oracle Business Intelligence technical experience
- Oracle Enterprise Manager experience
- SQL & PL/SQL coding experience
- Unix shell scripting

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you

**Employment Type**:Full-time, Permanent

**Location**:Gosport

**Security Clearance Level**:DV

**Internal Recruiter**:Marion

**Salary**: Up to £50,000

**Benefits**:25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

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Shared Services Connected Ltd was established as a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Sopra Steria, in 2013 as part of the Government’s Shared Services Strategy for Smarter Government programme and operates from four regional centres of excellence:Blackpool; Newcastle; Newport; and York. We deliver best in class business transformation programmes to across the Public Sector with a target to release one billion pounds of savings to the public.

We have established an enviable track record in the design and delivery of large-scale innovative HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance & Accounting solutions to significantly improve efficiencies and enhance service levels across Government and Public Sector. Ourclients include several government agencies including the Department for Work and Pensions, Environment Agency Department for Education, Ministry of Justice and Home Office as well as the Metropolitan Police Service and the Construction Industry Training Board.